12 Westminster GoodGymers ran 6.5km to One Big Family Victoria in the pouring rain to help sort out the store shed after the weekends fundraiser.

Thank you all so much for coming along! Great to have so many first timers!!

Little plug for next weeks session to St Andrews youth club who need help moving some furniture donations from a local office before next Friday! All hands on deck for a top task for an amazing institution!

Big shout out for the GoodGym Olympics on Saturday 3rd of August!! Sign ups are live and it is always a great day!! Click here for all information.

So it was wet but we were not deterred and glided South towards Victoria negotiating a million umbrellas and puddles almost Matrixing the rain drops with our pace!

3.5k down and we had reached the Ebury Estate meeting Mike from One Big Family. The task a little changed due to the weather had us sorting out one of the charity’s store sheds after its contents were crammed back in after a charity fundraiser last Sunday.

With the heavens really opening we worked fast and smart trying to keep as much dry as possible. Removing the mountain of stuff out then strategically putting it back in so that it was safe and useable. Shifting the toiletries to the front for easy access to be given out to Westminster’s homeless in the next couple of days finished off the task and we got on the road!!

Getting warm we decided to up the pace with a tempo effort from Victoria to Buckingham Palace getting that heart pumping and legs turning over! A short recovery shuffle over to the famous Green Park Drag for the final push of the evening where we dropped the hammer and drove our legs into 6th gear for a 2 minute rep up the gradual incline!!

With fitness and volunteer goals complete we made it back to base with a soggy but top group run complete!!

Joel

8 GoodGymers ran 7k to help One Big Family Homeless Charity make 150 sandwiches for the evening’s food distribution.

Amazing to have a influx of new and returning GoodGym runners this evening!! Thank you all for coming along for the sweaty Central London Run!

We weaved our way South through the busy Central London streets and Royal Parks the 3.5k to Ebury Estate where we met Mike and the very compact team at One Big Family.

A mountain of bread, cheese, jam and spread lay ahead! Splitting into 2 groups to had the cheese crew and the Jamers! Keeping the spreading beat to some of the most for toe tapping tunes ever made!

Double spreading, triangles, rectangles cutting methods and bag tying Techniques caused a lot of controversy amongst the Cheese crew in particular!

With 25 minutes on the clock the deed had been complete just before our outdoor food preparation area got a heavy sprinkle of rain.

With rain drops to dodge we zipped back at a springy pace back to base working up a sweat in the humid London evening air.

All stretched out and ready for a refuel we headed off with a exercise/volunteering combo on the bag!

Hope to see you all next week for our visit to Ark Atwood Primary School memorial garden to put the finishing touches before the grad opening!

Joel

8 Great GoodGymers ran 5k and delivered 500 leaftlets to promote a walking football league starting in Regents Park.

A lovely evening in Westminster running around the beautiful Regents Park and the surrounding residential roads delivering 500 leaflets to help promote the walking football initiative for Westminster’s over 55’s to combat inactivity and isolation in Westminster’s older community.

Buzzing around with high efficiency we delivered nearly all the leaflets for the first time ever. Helping to get the league going hopefully with a few more players and supporters.

40 minutes of delivering and there was just enough time to squeeze in some testing body weight conditioning!! Big shout out to Phil for getting stuck in only 72 hours after his epic marathon performance. Those wall squats looked very tough!!

With task done and circuit complete, legs were a little tired but we zipped back to base at a powerful rate!

All stretched out and away by 8 on the nose!

Hope to see you next week for our visit to One Big Family Homeless Charity.

Joel